Author Dan Lyons calls Hub Spot a “startup cult” and compares it to Scientology.
[Cross-posted for the same reason I cross-posted the Daily Beast article comparing Donald Trump to L. Ron Hubbard. That is, not to criticize either Donald Trump or Hub Spot, but to note the media using Scientology as an example of a cult.]
New York Post:
Millennials are being dot.conned by cult-like tech companies
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Tech startups love millennials. Tasty, tasty millennials who get underpaid, overworked, churned up and turned into nourishment for venture capitalists. Millennials are the Soylent Green of the tech world.
As each batch gets mashed up, there’s a long line of new hires eager to be made into the next meal for the execs and their billionaire backers, as tech survivor Dan Lyons shows in a scathingly funny new book, “Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble” (Hachette Books).
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An all-pervading sinister air.
Calling HubSpot a “startup cult” and comparing it to Scientology, Lyons notes that employees have to wear rubber bracelets containing transponders, which are needed to lock and unlock doors when moving around HQ. Which means, of course, that the Company is tracking you at all times.
The Company also gives employees a lengthy, pseudoscientific, entirely scary-sounding personality test (devised by a crackpot whose claim to fame was creating the Wonder Woman comics). All of this sounds kinda like the bizarre questionnaire Scientologists take while grasping tin cans.
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Author Dan Lyons calls Hub Spot a “startup cult” and compares it to Scientology
